The following excerpt from the minutes of Council meeting Weld in 1856, read rather curiously, ' Beggars having been very numerous lately in the Settlement, Mr, Clifton (Superintendent of Police) was instructed to collect them ut the Station and ferry them over to Pootung, as-they do not care being driven across the Yang-g-pang by the Pol This certain! and whether Pootung was more to the liking was carrying out the policy of "'moving-on," of the beggars than the other side of the Yang-king-pang does not transpire.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.